I finally got around to watching "Nekromantik", despite it being a cult movie in the genre. I just never had the time, nor the chance to get to watch it. I finally managed to get my cold, dead hands - hint, hint - on a DVD copy and got to watch it.
So was it all it was cranked up to be? No. Not even by a longshot. Sure, there were some rather unsettling moments in the movie, I had never seen this kind of necrophilia in a movie, and it was rather graphic (just as a word of warning to those not having seen the movie yet). But of course, this is a movie that you watch solely for the shock effects, because there is nothing even resembling an interesting storyline here, and the movie is just full of flaws.
As for the acting, well let's just say bless them for trying. You shouldn't go expecting award winning acting performances here. You know what you are getting yourself into with a movie such as "Nekromantik" and sure enough, you will not be disappointed.
The music in the movie was horrible, and it was unfathomably unfitting for the movie. It was way too upbeat and energetic. It just would have served the movie so much better with dark, somber music instead.
"Nekromantik" does, of course, also have a totally unnecessary amount of nudity in it, which doesn't really serve any purpose and doesn't really help to further whatever little of a storyline there actually was present. Just felt like an excuse to throw in the showing of naked people as well. And within the first 5 minutes of the movie, you have seen someone peeing twice... Again, to what purpose? None!
The effects in the movie were adequate. Not great, mind you, but they served their purpose well enough. The corpse was actually fairly nicely made and it was the main attraction of the movie - in more ways than just one.
I didn't understand why the staff working at JSA didn't wear protective masks and gloves while handling the deceased. It just made absolutely no sense. Using bare hands, and then seen several times throughout the movie with their hands at the faces, scratching their eyes, etc. They should be so sick from the exposure to the decaying corpses, as should the girlfriend whom made love to the corpse.
But of course, the movie is all about shock effect and shock value. And yes, there is something to that. I haven't seen necrophilia this explicit before, so that was a new for me, and it was somewhat gross. Somewhat. Takes a lot to throw off a seasoned horror veteran like me. But seeing the rabbit being killed on screen was a bit too visual for me, I didn't like watching that. One thing is seeing staged necrophilia with a prosthetic corpse, another thing is seeing a real, live animal killed.
All in all, not a very noteworthy movie. I have seen it now, and will never see it again, so I can tick it off of my watched-movie-list now.
So was it all it was cranked up to be? No. Not even by a longshot. Sure, there were some rather unsettling moments in the movie, I had never seen this kind of necrophilia in a movie, and it was rather graphic (just as a word of warning to those not having seen the movie yet). But of course, this is a movie that you watch solely for the shock effects, because there is nothing even resembling an interesting storyline here, and the movie is just full of flaws.
As for the acting, well let's just say bless them for trying. You shouldn't go expecting award winning acting performances here. You know what you are getting yourself into with a movie such as "Nekromantik" and sure enough, you will not be disappointed.
The music in the movie was horrible, and it was unfathomably unfitting for the movie. It was way too upbeat and energetic. It just would have served the movie so much better with dark, somber music instead.
"Nekromantik" does, of course, also have a totally unnecessary amount of nudity in it, which doesn't really serve any purpose and doesn't really help to further whatever little of a storyline there actually was present. Just felt like an excuse to throw in the showing of naked people as well. And within the first 5 minutes of the movie, you have seen someone peeing twice... Again, to what purpose? None!
The effects in the movie were adequate. Not great, mind you, but they served their purpose well enough. The corpse was actually fairly nicely made and it was the main attraction of the movie - in more ways than just one.
I didn't understand why the staff working at JSA didn't wear protective masks and gloves while handling the deceased. It just made absolutely no sense. Using bare hands, and then seen several times throughout the movie with their hands at the faces, scratching their eyes, etc. They should be so sick from the exposure to the decaying corpses, as should the girlfriend whom made love to the corpse.
But of course, the movie is all about shock effect and shock value. And yes, there is something to that. I haven't seen necrophilia this explicit before, so that was a new for me, and it was somewhat gross. Somewhat. Takes a lot to throw off a seasoned horror veteran like me. But seeing the rabbit being killed on screen was a bit too visual for me, I didn't like watching that. One thing is seeing staged necrophilia with a prosthetic corpse, another thing is seeing a real, live animal killed.
All in all, not a very noteworthy movie. I have seen it now, and will never see it again, so I can tick it off of my watched-movie-list now.